JDog Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 (edited) Yesterday I was in despair. I drove miles round fourteen newly sown fields of spring barley and three of spring beans and there was very little to excite me. Not many pigeons and no flight lines in. Just to make sure that it wasn't a 'time of day' thing I drove round all of the fields again in the afternoon but still nothing. Watching the rugby and the football results is a poor alternative to pigeon shooting. Today I decided that the disappointment of yesterday was just too great and that I wouldn't go out. I had a bit of 'Sunday morning delight' and got out of bed at 11:30 and had a late breakfast a bit of banter and then in a moment of mental gymnastics which I am not normally capable of I persuaded my other half to go shopping on her own. As soon as she was gone I put the dogs and gun in the car and I was gone.......though where I was going was uncertain as I had seen nothing yesterday to give me any hope. I drove to the closest of my farms and the first field I looked at which was spring barley sown last Thursday had 200 pigeons and 50 corvids on it! Oh joy of joy. With no time to waste I got the kit out and set up without even considering flight lines. This is unprofessional I know but I was so keen to get out there I felt that I knew where to go on instinct. There was a sparse hedge but one bush looked to be in the right place so I set up there. This may be obvious in the attached photos. The wind came along the hedge and I put one floater along it 50m from my hide with a few flock-coated shells and I left a very wide gap of 30m before erecting another floater and another group of shells. Pigeons decoyed well from the start and I replaced shells with dead birds as I shot them. It has been a long time since I saw pigeons decoy so well and many which came into the pattern were relatively easy. Those that came down wind were not easy in the slightest. To cut a long story short I had a fantastic three hours in the hide and I ended up with 80 pigeons, 4 rooks, 5 carrion crows and 5 jackdaws picked for a total of 94 head. I forgot to mention that one of the carrion crows was not dead when my labrador went to pick it and it pecked him hard enough to make him yelp. The Border terrier had no such qualms and ran over and bit it back. He returned to the hide with it hanging off his nose. Edited April 7, 2013 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon 3 Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Top Stuff Jdog, very little happening round here yet. Looked at 3 farms yesterday and very little about, was out near Kemble today and a lot of birds hitting the drillings around there if anybody shoots that area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fergie Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 great afternoon had well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 After such a great afternoon it must have been annoying to be so close to the ton but not quite over it. Great to see some proper bags on here again though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Cracking bag buddy from your photo thats where my hide would have been put top day well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 well done JDog. knew it wouldn't be long good write up and nice to a couple of carrions in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Great to see you have had a decent day after all the effort you have been putting in for little return lately, hopefully it will be my turn soon !. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 cracking bag and well deserved it must of been hectic shooting to get that bag in 3hrs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiss.tony Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Very very good they have switched on in last week big time cracking bag Mister dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Well deserved cracking day. You should start every shooting day in the same manner. Well done again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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